John Stimson Wrote:
> I got a Zalman heat-pipe based heatsink for the video card, and I think
> that was a mistake. Although it reduced the noise considerably, I
> think that the weight and the mounting method put too much mechanical
> stress on the graphics processor chip, possibly cracking the
I can vouch for the Antec Sontata II case. I built a new PC with it last
month and it is about as silent as can be. I also used a fanless video
card. The only time I hear it is when it gets a little warm in the
room, there is a second PSU fan which comes on for a few seconds now
and thenÂ… but even
A couple of years ago, I switched my PCs over to Seasonic power supplies
and Zalman CPU heatsinks. I also replaced any extra case fans with the
Panasonic quiet 3" fans. All of that worked very well. The noisiest
remaining component was the fan on my ATI video card.
I got a Zalman heat-pipe bas
I also built a pc based on recommendations from
http://www.silentpcreview.com/index.php. I used a Antec Sonata case
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article60-page1.html based on there review and
have been quite happy with it. The dives are mounted on rubber grommets and it
uses large slow movi
Kyle
I tried to silence an older desktop, by fitting a quiet PSU, bigger
case fans, Zalman cpu cooler. All these bits had some effect, but in
the end I gave up and bought a new Dell desktop (5150) which I had
listened to at work. It uses the new BTX form motherboard, with just
one big fan, and a
Kyle, I built a small computer without any previous experience after
doing a lot of reading at silentpc.com. It is so quiet I can't hear it
from more than a foot away and it didn't cost me an arm and a leg. I
can help you build one or modify your Dell, but as radish said, it
could be a very big to
Kyle Wrote:
> My pc sits in my bedroom, and the fan is noisy, so I have to put it to
> sleep at night. Maybe that's best, but it keeps me from being able to
> turn on my SB3 without waking up the computer. I know there are quiet
> fans, but are they really much quieter than my stock Dell fan?
